Research Centre Socio-Economic Research Centre

Contact

Lars Buur, Centre Leader // Associate Professor, Roskilde University, lbuur@ruc.dk

Lone Riisgaard, Centre Leader // Associate Professor, Roskilde University, loner@ruc.dk (new centre leader from 1. february 2023)

Researchers from Roskilde University

Centre members from Roskilde University

 

The Socio-Economic Research Centre is envolved in a number of research projects.

Producing alternative green futures: Exploring interconnections between green transitions and socioeconomics and political organization.
Lone Riisgaard, Roskilde University, Project leader, Associate professor, loner@ruc.dk
Jacob Rasmussen, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, jacobra@ruc.dk
https://ruc.dk/nyheder/samfundsforskere-vil-udfordre-begrebet-groen-vaekst (in Danish)
 

CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfers in Africa
Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Project coordinator, Associate professor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Malin Nystrand, Gothenburg University and Roskilde University, Project participant, malinn@ruc.dk
Jacob Ulrich, Roskilde University, Project participant, P.hd. Fellow, jacobu@ruc.dk
Bruno Yawe, Project leader
Rehema Kilonzo, Project leader
Lutengano Mwinuka, Project participant
Raphael Macha, Project participant
Fred Henry Beteganya, Project participant
Susan Namirembe Kavuma, Project participant
 

SWASH: Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana
Paul Stacey, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, pas@ruc.dk
Jacob Rasmussen, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, jacobra@ruc.dk
Nina Torm, Roskilde University, Project participant, Postdoc, ninatorm@ruc.dk
Marin Oteng-Ababio, Project participant
Richard Grant, Project participant
Iris Fynn, Project participant
Issahaka Fuseini, Project participant
 

Decent Work and GVC-based Industrialization in Ethiopia (EthApparel)
The project examines concomitantly the three scales of global buyers, supplier firms, and workers as well as the agency of these actors in driving inclusive development outcomes in the context of Ethiopia’s political economy.
Kristoffer Marslev, Roskilde University, Postdoc, marslev@ruc.dk

Illegal resource extraction and state formation in emerging African democracies (GOLD)
Paul Stacey, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, pas@ruc.dk 
Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Abdul-Gafaru Abdulia, University Ghana, Legion, agabdulai@ug.edu.gh

Commodifying Compassion: Implications of Turning People and Humanitarian Causes into Marketable Things (CoCo research)
Commodifying Compassion aims to understand how ‘helping’ has become a marketable commodity and how this impacts humanitarianism symbolically and materially.
Mette Fog Olwig, Roskilde University, Associate professor, mettefo@ruc.dk
https://www.commodifyingcompassion.com/
 

Informal Worker Organization and Social Protection (SPIWORK)
This project investigates emerging collective forms of informal worker organization, and their potential for enabling informal worker access to social protection measures in Kenya and Tanzania.
Lone Riisgaard, Roskilde University, Project leader, Associate professor, loner@ruc.dk
Nina Torm, Roskilde University, Project participant, Postdoc, ninatorm@ruc.dk
Winnie Mitullah, Professor, ex-Director of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Kenya, mitulla@uonbi.ac.ke  
Godbertha Kinyondo, Senior Lecturer, Mzumbe University, Business School, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Anne Kamau, Lecturer, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Kenya
 

Hierarchies of Rights: Land and natural resource investments in Africa (Hierarchies)
The HIERARCHIES research programme researches how struggles related to large-scale investments into natural resources reconfigure rights to land by local populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Project leader, Associate professor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Josè Macuane, University Eduardo Mondlane, MZ (Team Leader on Mozambique), macuane@yahoo.com.br
Carlota M. M. Tembe, University Eduardo Mondlane, MZ, carlota.mondlane@uem.mz
Faustin Maganga, University Dar es Salaam, TZ (Team Leader on Tanzania) faustinmaganga@yahoo.co.uk
Opportuna Kweka, University of Dar es Salaam, TZ, okweka@yahoo.com
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, Danish Institute for International Studies, rhp@diis.dk
Emmanuel Sulle, University of Dar es Salaam, TZ, esulle@plaas.org.za
Malin Nystrand, Gothenburg University and Roskilde University, malinn@ruc.dk
Thabit Jacob, Roskilde University and Gothenburg University, thabit.jacob@gu.se
Padil Salimo, Eduardo Mondlane and Roskilde University, padil.salimo@gmail.com
Celso Monjane, Eduardo Mondlane and Roskilde University. monjanecelso@yahoo.com

Carlsberg Foundation Monography Fellowship
Laura Horn, Roskilde University, Associate professor, lhorn@ruc.dk

Sapere Aude/ Universal Aspiration vs. Geopolitical Divides: Imagining the World as a ‘Post-Millennial’ in the SDG Era
Se also: Can the world’s youth unite across geopolitical divides to address the Sustainable Development Goals?
Mette Fog Olwig, Roskilde University, Associate professor, mettefo@ruc.dk

Carlsberg Foundation Research Infrastructure: Vegetarianism in a Global Perspective
Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Associate Professor, johanf@ruc.dk

Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship: Going Green Globally? Moral Economies of Vegetarianism
Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Associate Professor, johanf@ruc.dk
 

You find a list of projects at Centre profile at the Roskilde University Research Portal

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